Wednesday, 7 October 2015

New Trends to Watch Out for in QA Testing

Be it population or globalization
or cutting age technology, business is facing a major change almost every year
and QA testing is no different. Over a mere few years, QA testing has undergone
major changes. It is showing certain trends which will further alter it in the
near future. The following are a list of such trends which are steadily gaining
importance in the QA testing industry.

Integrating
QA through Agility and TCoE: Testing Centers of Excellence (TCoE)
along with agile testing is going to play an important role in incorporating
the QA department as one of the major part of the business. Companies are
investing money in QA to avoid after cost production and enhance customer
satisfaction.

Greater
Focus on New Technology: Although there has been a sharp rise in
the mobile app development from 31% to 55%, yet when it comes to testing the
mobile software, organizations are at a loss of skilled testers. Cloud computing has made advancement, but security and performance is still an issue
and is going to be the focus of IT industry in the near future.

Higher
Automation Levels: As agile testing keeps reducing the time
required for the testing procedure, organizations are opting for automated
testing facilities to save time as well as money. The automatic testing
facilities have made a marked progress in the field of development and will
continue to do so in the future. It is exerting its importance in the
regression testing, unit testing and load testing.

Greater
Focus on Security: With the emergence and growing importance of
cloud computing, security has appeared to be a major issue. Organizations are
putting in stress to increase the security features of the cloud computing as
well as mobile facilities to stop security breaches so that testing facilities
can be safely moved to clouds and accessed at all times.

Context
Driven Testing: With the increased amount of mobility as well as
social media, the whole world seems to be integrated with the help of software.
Business owners are now looking for a method to increase the test coverage to a
maximum level in order to prevent central hubs of hardware, middleware and test
environments. Context driven testing provides the businessmen with the power to
do so.

Continuous
Integration Testing: Continuous integration testing ensures that
the software is being tested of bugs, performance and security issues right
from the beginning of the developmental phase in short intervals. This ensures
that the defects do not pile up at the end of the process and reduces the load
on the developers. This is trending a lot in current days as it saves both time
and hassle of the developers

Independent
Software Testing: As the importance of QA testing is becoming
clearer day by day, companies are now seeking the help of individual
organizations which are experts in the QA testing jobs. Many organizations are
popping up which are emphasising on hiring individuals with great skills for
testers and are focused in the QA testing of software only.

These are some of the most
noticeable trends of the QA testing industry, which is going to be of major
importance in the future and will be changing the course of software testing
industry.